Improvement in clothes-driers



J. R. BASSETT.

Improvement |n Clothes-Briers.

N0.127,94 8, Patented June 18, 1872.

UNITED STATES JOEL R. BASSETT, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO FRED. WEGELIN, I

PATENT OFFICE.

OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,948, dated June 18, 1872.

Specification of a Folding O1othes-H0rseinvented by me, JoEL B. BASSETT, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio.

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

My invention relates to a remarkably cheap, convenient, and durable form of those clothesdriers which comprise two or more leaves or panels capable of being folded in either direction at will.

Description with Reference to the Drawing.

being cast in the form shown in Fig. 3, are

bent around the said grooved portions B of the uprights, so as to take and retain the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The clips may be composed of malleable iron properly protected from oxidation by tinning or otherwise, or of other malleable metal.

Over clothesdriers whose leaves are so coupled as that their standards impinge on each other my device is manifestly preferable, because any slight warping of the standards will not cause them to bind, and because the friction is confined to the bearing of the clips; moreover, the distance at which the standards are separated enables the folding back on each other of two or more panels, full of quilts or other thick or bulky articles, without any strain on the apparatus or danger of starting the clips.

Claim.

set my hand.

, J. B. BASSETT.

Witnesses Gno. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAN. 

